Unfortunately, most of the really pretty back roads around me are unpaved, which also means even more traffic on the main paved roads. That's one reason why my new bike leans toward the gravel bike side of things without being an all-out gravel grinder. I didn't get much time with it this year, but next year I'll have to see what routes it works well on (some of our gravel roads are really rough and best traversed by MTB).